tigrinya in English

noun
1
a Semitic language spoken in Tigray.
The official languages were Tigrinya and Arabic.

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1. Singh's speech was simultaneously translated into five languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromiffa, Afar and Somalinya.

2. Though there are many dialects that are spoken throughout Ethiopia (including Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromiffa/Affan Oromo, etc), Amharic is the most popular and widely used.

3. The Convention has been translated into Tigrinya (20,000 copies), Arabic (15,000 copies), Tigre, Afar, Saho and Kunama (10,000 copies each) and distributed to all regions;

4. Axum (አክሱም, also spelt Aksum) is a city of 56,000 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, just south of Eritrea, with which it shares the language of Tigrinya.

5. Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʿez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; it also has affinities with Tigré, Tigrinya, and the South Arabic dialects.